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Angellist is a good place to start. Meetups are great (depending on your area), coworking spaces (Like WeWork, etc), and even conferences for your niche. It's

Angellist is a good place to start. Meetups are great (depending on your area), coworking spaces (Like WeWork, etc), and even conferences for your niche. It's very unlikely that you'll personally meet the right person, but actually fairly likely that someone you meet will know the right person. So just talk about your idea with everybody who will listen, get those business cards into people's pockets and see what the universe brings your way. You'll wanna get facetime with "connectors" (if you've read the Tipping Point, you'll know what I mean). An email intro from one of them to the right person is all you need.

fempreneur 12y ago
Great advice. Thank you. Angellist is on my list! And love Malcolm Gladwell. I've been reaching out to my network. I'm in LA, and have signed up for a bunch of Meet Ups, just hard to know which ones are worth attending in a city that is so spread out. I noticed you are in LA too, let me know if you know of any worth noting. Thank you!
- MalcolmDiggs 12y ago
  Oh cool, didn't realize you were in LA. It depends on what you're trying to do, many of the meetups are highly specialized. JSLA (www.js.la) is one of my favorites. NodeDTLA (meetup.com/NodeDTLA/) is great, and those guys recently spun off a new one: called techDTLA (meetup.com/techDTLA). Joe Devon (@joedevon on twitter) is a good guy to know. He organizes CTO events in the area, and a PHP meetup (meetup.com/laphpdev). There are also hackernews meetups, PM meetups, DBA meetups, undirected coding sessions, and lots of others. Feel free to email me (my username @gmail) if you need anything.
  - fempreneur 12y ago
    Wow thank you so much Malcolm! I will definitely reach out via email. I'm pretty new to the city, good to meet and network with new people, and I'll check out the ones you listed. Appreciate all your help.

fempreneur 12y ago

Great advice. Thank you. Angellist is on my list! And love Malcolm Gladwell. I've been reaching out to my network. I'm in LA, and have signed up for a bunch of Meet Ups, just hard to know which ones are worth attending in a city that is so spread out. I noticed you are in LA too, let me know if you know of any worth noting. Thank you!

MalcolmDiggs 12y ago
Oh cool, didn't realize you were in LA. It depends on what you're trying to do, many of the meetups are highly specialized. JSLA (www.js.la) is one of my favorites. NodeDTLA (meetup.com/NodeDTLA/) is great, and those guys recently spun off a new one: called techDTLA (meetup.com/techDTLA). Joe Devon (@joedevon on twitter) is a good guy to know. He organizes CTO events in the area, and a PHP meetup (meetup.com/laphpdev). There are also hackernews meetups, PM meetups, DBA meetups, undirected coding sessions, and lots of others. Feel free to email me (my username @gmail) if you need anything.
- fempreneur 12y ago
  Wow thank you so much Malcolm! I will definitely reach out via email. I'm pretty new to the city, good to meet and network with new people, and I'll check out the ones you listed. Appreciate all your help.